Real campuses. Measured outcomes.
No vanity metrics. Just what changed, how it was measured, and what a procurement officer could ask us to prove.
Closing the NC(V) throughput gap by making attendance defensible at audit.
A mid-sized TVET sitting on the DHET 2023 baselines — 58.2% NC(V) Level 4 certification, ~R138 000 per year of admin wasted on DHET returns — modelled against what the portal would preserve, protect and recover. No campus is named; every number traces to a citation on the research page.
Passing NSFAS attendance-linked audits without a second bursar.
A QCTO-accredited private college modelled against NSFAS 2023/24 figures — R47bn disbursed, R1.4bn in tuition arrears, ~87 000 at-risk students under disbursement review. For a private college, an attendance record that fails NSFAS audit is not an inconvenience — it is a liquidity event. Indicative saving: R193 000/year plus avoided claw-back exposure.
Turning paper registers into a matric intervention — before June, not after trials.
A no-fee high school modelled against StatsSA 2023 GHS dropout drivers and DBE attendance baselines. The argument is simple: the schools that close the matric gap are the ones that see at-risk learners in Term 2, not Term 4. Indicative saving: R88 000/year in admin, with mid-year intervention data that paper cannot produce.
Preserving teaching hours during a load-shedding year — the offline-first case.
A 1 500-student TVET modelled against CSIR 2023 load-shedding (6 950 hours, 332 days) and StatsSA 2023 digital-access baselines. The portal's offline-first design converts lost lectures to asynchronous learning rather than cancelling them outright. Indicative saving: R252 000 in a load-shedding-heavy term.
Running a full learning portal on 50 MB/student/month.
A rural TVET satellite campus modelled against StatsSA 2023 digital-access and RIA data-affordability baselines. SA has the 4th-most-expensive mobile data in Africa on the Research ICT Africa 2023 price-basket; if a portal burns 200 MB a week, students stop using it. Indicative saving: R64 000/year in data-parity support + a portal students can actually afford to open.